Paper-weight



H. D. HOLLOWAY 83 P; W. RHODES! (No Model.)

I PAPER WEIGHT.

No. 560,502. "Patented May 19, 1896.

5 R O T N E V N WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. IIOLLOIVAY AND FREDERICK W. RHODES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

PAPER-WEIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,502, dated May 19, 1896.

Application filed March 13, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY D. HOLLOWAY and FREDERICK W. Rnonns, citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Veights; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in paper-weights, and more particularly to that class known as pen racks and cleaners, the object being to combine in one article a suitable pen-rack, pen-cleaner, pincushion, and the whole to be a handy and useful paperweight with novel means for retaining the inserted pens immovably in the position which they originally assume. This is essential where a paper-weight is to be also a pen holder or rack, as a wabbling or falling out of the said pens would render it useless as a weight.

With these and other objects and advantages in view our invention consists in certain new and novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the hereto annexed claims made a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings,clearly illustrating our invention, Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of the combined paper-weight, pen-rack, pen-cleaner, and pincushion; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts in both figures of the drawings.

We construct the weight 1 with a reservoir or hollow interior 2 and pen-openings in any number desired leading down into said reservoir. WVe have shown three of these openings 3, and preferably situate them at diametrically opposite points near the periphery of the globular dome of the weight. This construction or form of the dome, approximately spherical, directs the pens inserted in the penopenings 3 toward a central point near the base of the weight. Here the pen-points are inserted in shot 4, with which the reservoir is partially filled, or in any other suitable ma terial of a disintegrated state and designed to Serial No. 583,084. (No model.)

afford a yielding and cleansing seat for their reception.

Depending centrally from the interior of the dome and extending to or near the base of the weight 1 is a core 5, Whose general form is that of a cone with a convex surface. The purpose and function of this construction of the interior of the Weight with a conical or approximately conical depending core will be readily apparent upon examination of Fig. 1 of the drawings, where it will be noted that the pens are guided to and rest against this core by reason of the shape of the dome and the relatively-situated pen-openings 3. Were it not for the core located centrally in the reservoir 2 the pens would at each moving of the weight shift their position and finally become displaced. This would interfere with the usefulness of the pen-rack as a paper-weight and place the manuscript to be Weighted in jeopardy of ink-blots. As it is, the pens remain immovably in their original position, and such stability is due entirely to the above-described construction. The center of the exterior surface of the dome is recessed, as at 6, and inserted therein is a pen cleaner or wiper 7, formed of bristles or other suitable wiping substance. Diametrically opposite one of the pen-openings 3 is a pincushion 8, seated in a recess or otherwise suitably secured to the surface of the paper-weight dome.

Although we do not preferably construct this weight with a place for ink, such can readily be provided for. moved to the left or right and a reservoir formed in the dome with a suitable cover. The dotted lines in Fig. 2 indicate the approximate position of the pincushion and ink-well should the latter be combined with the paperweight.

The weight may be constructed of any suitable material-such as glass, aluminium,hard rubber, or wood and the shape or design may suit the individual fancy. The dome does not of necessity require to be formed spherically, but may be flat, the essential part being to so incline the axes of the pen-openings as to direct the pens toward a central point.

WVe do not desire to confine ourselves to the precise details of construction herein shown The pincushion can be and described, but reserve to ourselves the right and privilege to alter the same within the bounds of mechanical ingenuity without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. A paper-weight comprising a hollow interior or reservoir, openings in said weight for the introduction of writing instruments, a disintegrated substance partially filling the said interior reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of said writing instruments, and means located centrally in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described paper'weight comprising an inclosed reservoir, openings leading into said reservoir, a disintegrated substance partially filling said reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of writing instru ments, means located centrally in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, and a pin holder located on the outer surface of said article, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

The herein-described paper-weight comprising an inclosed reservoir, openings leading into said reservoir, a disintegrated substance partially filling said reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of writing instruments, means located centrally in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, a pin-holder, and a pen-wiper located on the outer surface of said article, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. A paper-weight comprising a hollow interior or reservoir, openings in said weight leading into said reservoir, a disintegrated substance partially filling the said interior reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of writing instruments, and a centrally-depending core secured in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, substantially as described.

5. The herein-described paper-weight comprising an inclosed reservoir, openings leading into said reservoir, a disintegrated substance partially filling said reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of writinginstruments, means located centrally in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, a pin-holder, a pen-wiper, and a reservoir located upon the outer surface of said article and designed to receive a writing fluid, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

6. The herein-described paper-weight comprising an inclosed reservoir, openings leading into said reservoir, a disintegrated substance partially filling said reservoir and adapted to receive the ends of writing instruments, a centrally-depending core secured in said reservoir and designed to secure the writing instruments in a steadfast position, a pinholder, and a pen-wiper, both of which latter are located upon the outer surface of the said paper-weight, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY D. IIOLLOXVAY. FREDERICK \V. RHODES. \Vitnesses:

R. R. BUCHANAN,

L. ABBOTT. 

